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Panel Session

Technology in Social Work Education and Practice

Session: Overcoming Barriers with Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost Courses in Social Work

Overcoming Barriers With Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost Courses in Social Work

Friday, October 25, 2024

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM CT

Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501C

Earn 1 CE Hour

Panelist(s)

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Libby Fry, LMSW (she/her/hers)

BSW Program Director, Clinical Associate Professor
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA, United States
Stephen P. Cummings, MSW, ACSW, LISW

Clinical Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, United States
Megan E. Gilster, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, United States

This panel presentation demonstrates how Open Educational Resources (OER) in social work courses facilitate inclusivity by reducing cost and by offering multiple voices. Faculty are drawn to OER, but have been slow to adopt. We demonstrate using OER in three courses to advance social, economic, environmental, and racial justice.

Learning Objectives:

Through discussion of multiple case examples, understand how OER and Zero Textbook Cost advance economic justice by reducing educational costs to students.
Understand how OER advances social, environmental, and racial justice by including multiple voices that are often absent or poorly depicted in social work texts.
Incorporate multiple OER sources into a single online text, such as a PressBook, for accessibility during and after the course.